The New Tourists

The visitors’ books of 19th-century hotels, pubs and inns show Victorians on holiday, revealing them to be irreverent pleasure seekers, capable of highfalutin pomposity and touristic wrath.

‘England & Scotland East Coast Route’ (detail), poster, c.1900 © SSPL/Getty Images.
‘England & Scotland East Coast Route’ (detail), poster, c.1900 © SSPL/Getty Images.

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